Shipping Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Job Summary

As the Shipping Supervisor (3rd Shift), you will be responsible for ensuring the safety of our employees and our products. Additionally, this position is responsible for directing and managing the activities of hourly production personnel while ensuring the safe and effective meetings of the needs of their departments/areas in the plant. In addition, the supervisor is responsible for adhering to the employee handbook and complying with regulatory requirements, company and plant policies, procedures, and rules in their area of responsibility.

You must be flexible for all shifts and weekend work. Overtime will be required.

• Independently perform all assignments except the most complex or unusual, only being given instructions as to the general results expected.
• Complete investigations and develop plans to address problems identified that impact safety, quality, or productivity within assigned areas.
• Be responsible for direction and management of hourly production personnel while safely and effectively meet the needs of their departments/areas in the plant.
• Resolve routine manufacturing, shipping, and maintenance issues via an established escalation process and resource allocation.
• Handle weekend work as assigned.
• Work primarily 3rd shift (generally 10:00 pm – 7:30 am) with flexibility for day shift or other shift changes.

• Ensure that the area of responsibility supports all plant goals daily and weekly reviewing results with staff.
• Coordinate and administer daily interaction between the assigned area of responsibility and all other departments in the plant, including peers across shifts.
• Ensure that personnel have proper qualifications, are properly trained, and motivated to work productively both as part of a team and individually.
• Ensure compliance with established standards in the areas of food quality & safety and employee safety, and identify and implement opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure compliance with administrative and reporting procedures while complying with overtime and provisions of the handbook.
• Coordinate labor staffing on a daily basis in coherence with budgeted staffing.
• Document notification requests in SAP PM and follow up with maintenance and other shifts.
• Input data into SAP, check QA documentation, and verify employee timecards.
• Analyze information and follow up on exceptions and opportunities.
• Foster a continuous improvement mindset, elevating new ideas and executing plans to positively impact the plant operations and goals.

• Operational support; coaching and development of team members.
• Review, prioritization, and execution of daily operations.
• Staffing, maintaining time cards and attendance records.
• Supporting Hershey Lean Initiatives and executing daily huddle communications.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• Excellent people and leadership skills.
• Strong change‑management skills, driving and implementing change to optimize safety, quality, and costs.
• Problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities.
• Ability to work with and relate to all levels of personnel.
• Ability to read/interp production performance reports.
• Lead/coordinate preparation of communications for area/plant.

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing or in a high‑speed, complex environment required.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite required.
• Minimum of 1 year in a supervisory capacity preferred in a logistics environment.
• Food manufacturing experience preferred.
• SAP experience preferred.
• Knowledge of shipping industry standards and government shipping regulations preferred.

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

We also extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees under the categories of Minority, Female, Disabled, and Protected Veterans.

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